Michael Patrick Thornton on ‘Waiting for Godot,’ Apple’s ‘The Savant’
One of the most iconic moments of 20th century theater isn’t two men sitting under a tree, waiting for a God that won’t come, in Samuel Beckett’s “Waiting for Godot“: It’s a long, unpunctuated speech delivered by the character Lucky that makes James Joyce’s “Finnegans Wake” look like Ernest Hemingway. In “Sunset Blvd.,” director Jamie…